You have normalcy bias.
A truly committed leftist does not obey rules, they create new ones for the revolution.
Leftist law clerks are like ants at a picnic.
The leaker would be a mass media icon with a guaranteed future law professor gig at any of a hundred law schools.
Their course: Law and the Fight for the People’s Revolution
Oh, I agree that a leftist clerk could have leaked it, thinking they will be a “hero” of some type after being wooed by some reporter. But they do not realize they wrath they have brought down upon their heads, and on the law school they graduated from. Their law school will have no choice but to disavow them and fall on their swords and beg the justices to not strike them from the clerkship hiring list. I suspect to no avail. Their clerkship hiring program is done.
Judicial clerkship hires move on to big law firms which brings in big money, which in turn brings in big donations to law schools. The more clerkship students you have, the more big donations you can expect in the future.
This is disastrous for every law school clerkship program, especially the ones who currently have graduates at the Court. As I said, meetings will be held tomorrow morning at law schools’s to institute new training programs on the importance of confidentiality, etc. As to the law schools that currently have clerks at the Court, they are sweating bullets!